4.0 out of 5 starsGood motherboard but might be some defective ones in circulation

4 January 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

Verified Purchase

The first one that I received had bent pins in the CPU socket straight out of the box. I actually checked that first thing based on another customer's review that had the same issue. Lots of pins in the lower left corner were noticeably bent. I just boxed it back up and started the return process. I've bought many mobos over the years and I have never experienced this. It makes me wonder whether this is a board that had previously been sold and returned.

The new one arrived a few days later and has been running well so far and its a quality motherboard. As long as Amazon/Asus refunds me for the original board I'm still happy but I still have to recommend that customers be careful and check that the pins are not damaged before trying to install the CPU, otherwise you might get blamed for the damage.

I'm giving this 1 star right now only because I have received 2 boards and both have been dead on arrival. The first didnt have any obvious signs of malfunction but would not post. When taken to an electronics shop they confirmed the motherboard was dead. I returned that one and received the "new" one today. Immediately upon opening the protective cap on the cpu I noticed a number of bent CPU pins. So I am in the process of returning that and have ordered yet another one. The reviews on this board are enough to give it one last shot but if a third comes broken then I will have to change my opinion on ASUS. I have always loved their products and hopefully am not let down.

Dead on ArrivalLights come on but that is it.Q-code stays at 00, no video, no beeps in speaker I attached.Swapped all components (power supply, memory, processor, drives) to a new different brand mother board and no problems were detected on boot up.

I couldn't get the board to POST reliably, even using UEFI defaults. I got tired of wrestling with it after two days. I was using Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM and an 8700K with a Samsung 960 PRO 1TB SSD. I wanted to love the board, but first it started giving me weird errors on USB ports 10 and 12 all the time, and just when those seemed to have gone away it started not wanting to POST at all. I had issues with both the original and updated versions of the UEFI. It was annoying to have so many issues installing AI Sense as well, only to eventually find that you have to "unblock" the zip file containing the installer for it to install on the latest Windows 10. All-in-all, 2 days of my life I'll never get back. It boots up into to Windows sometimes. Not the kind of experience I expected when I shelled out the kind of money they charge for this motherboard. Instead of ordering another one and taking the chance it'd happen all over again, I ordered a board from a competitor. The box was not sealed when I received it, which I found a bit disturbing as well.